“We discover ourselves through others.”

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

Intuition is one of the four basic psychological functions along with thinking, feeling,and sensing.

If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind.

The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you.

Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.

Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Everyone you meet knows something you don’t know but need to know. Learn from them.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior.

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did.

We will never obtain God’s kind of marriage simply by going along with the crowd, doing what everybody else does. We have to dig deep into the heart of God to discover His principles.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.

Friendships are discovered rather than made.

But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe – and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.